Clearview AI won’t sell vast faceprint collection to private companies

… nor to anybody, even law enforcement, in the place where privacy-oblivious biometrics companies are forced to their knees: Illinois.

Russia’s FSB wanted its own IoT botnet

If you thought the Mirai botnet was bad, what about a version under the control of Russia’s military that it could point like an electronic cannon at people it didn’t like?

Huge flaw found in how facial features are measured from images

It has to do with optics: faces appear to flatten out as we get further away. Our brains compensate, but AI-run facial recognition doesn’t.

Facebook, Google, YouTube order Clearview to stop scraping faceprints

It’s my First Amendment right to scrape publicly available face images, its CEO says. Besides, we’re just doing what Google Search does.

Twitter bans deepfakes, but only those ‘likely to cause harm’

Twitter isn’t interested in how the “synthetic or manipulated” media is created, but if it has the potential to cause harm it’ll be removed.